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"Making Up."
Was it all a misake' Ah. fold yCur ?TM
cleser,
And press my heaI rearer yer: -a:
For my brain has groiva weary with :hink
ing and weeping,
And my Ead heart'i- lorghez fal !"C
Was it all amisknr- ai 0
hand
You clssne > nice with quickenin breat'
And vowed before God t rat, '-aki all
others,
You would :ove me and keep me till death?
Was it all a mnstahe. Ts there anyone
dearer,
For whom your rnar's hea-t cries alcud?
Is there any sweet ,bope lying dead in your
bosom,
That your marriage vow hides hte a
shroud?
Was it all a mistake when I thcugt 'A cc.'a
cheer you,
And brighten your po-thway :hrc-.tgh ife'
Do you dream of a face that is -airer t
my fasc'
Of a name that is dearer tha- *
Was it all a mistake? Are 3 u lonug for
freedomra
Ab, I pray that re'eae ney be n=r,
That Daath's arm may tse re ard bear I
to heaven.
To await-whit was thai? Not a tear!
Ah, my own, ycu are wceping: You're sor
ry 3 ou sid it;
'Twas anger that made those words fall.
Then take me ycur-t'f, dear, al don' let
death have me,
For I don't want to die after all.
TATA9I.3 SERMEN.
Shows How the Evening of Life My
be Brightened,
While this discourse of Dr. Talmsge
rebukes arrogance it encourages hu
manity and shows how the evening Of
life may be brightened. The text is I
Kings xx, 11, "Lst not him that gird
eth on his harness boat himself as he
that putteth it off."
Harness is the obsolete word for ar
mor. It means harness for the mar,
not harness for the beast; harness for
battle, not harness for the plow. The
ancient armor cnsisted of helmet for
the head, breastplate and shield for
the heart, greaves for the feet. The
text makes a comparison between a
man enlisting for some war and a vet
eran returning, the one putting on the
armor and the other put;ng it off.
.Senhadad, the king of Syria, tnought
he could easily overcome the king of
Israel. Indeed, the Syrian was so sure
of the victory that he spread an ante
bellum banquet. With thirty-two kings
he was celebrating what they were go
ing to do. There were in all thirzy
three kings at the carousal, and their
condition is described in the Bible, not
as convival or stimulated exaltation,
but drunk. Theit gilded and bannered
pavilions were surrounded by high
mettled herees, neighing and clamping
and hitched to chariots such as kings
rode in. Bsnhadad sends officers over
to the king of Israel demsnding the
surrender of the city, saying, "Shou
shalt deliverme thy slIver ani thy gold
and thy wives and thy children," and
afterward sends other cfisers, saying
that the palsos of the xing -will be
searched and everything B~enhadad
wants he will take without asking.
Then the king of Israel called a conce
of war, and word is sent back to Ben
haded that his unreasonable demand
will be resisted. Then Benhadad sends
another message to the kirg of 1srael,
a message full of arrogance and brava
do, practically saying: "We will de
stroy you utterly. I will grind Samasria
into the dust, but there will not be dust
enough to make a bandful for each one
of my troops" Then the king of Israel
replied to Benhadad, practically say
ing: "Lst me see you do what you
say. You royal braggart, you iiht
better have postponea your ba::qiec un
til after the battle instead of spreading
it before the battle. You huzza too
soon. 'Let not him that gardeth on his
harness boast himself as he that put
teth it off."
An avalanche of courage and right
eousness, the Israelitish army came
down on Benhadad and his host. Is
was a hand to hand fight, each Israel
Ite hewing down a Syrian. Benhaded,
on horseback, gets away witri some of
the cavalry, but is only saved for a
worse defeat, in which 100,000 Syrian
Infantry were slaughtered in one day.
Now we see the sarcasm and the epi
gramnmatic power of the message of
my text sent by the king of Iar.el to
Benhadad, "Let not him that girdeth
on his harness boast himself as ne that
putteth it off.'
All up and down historv we see such
too early boasting. Soult, the marshal
of France, was so certain that he
would conquer that he had a proclama
tion printed announcing himself king
of Portugal and had a grand kast pre
pared for 4 o'clock that af ternoon, but
before that hour he a :d in ignominious
defeat, and Wellington of the orquer
ing host sat down at 4 o'clock at the
very banquet the marshal of France
had ordered for himself. Onarles V.
invaded France and was so sure of
conquest that he requested Paul Ja
vius, the historian, to gather together
a large amount of paper on which to
write the story of his many victories,
but disease and famine seized upon
his troopers, and he retreated in dis
may. So Benhiadad's behavior has
been copied in all ages of the world.
It will be my object, among other lea
sons, to show that he who puts off the
armor, having finished the battle, is
more to be congratulated than he who
begins.
First, I find encouragement in this
subject for the aged who have got
through the work and struggle of earth
ly life. My venerable friends, if yon
had at twenty-five years of age full ap
preciation of what you would have to
go through in the thirties and the for
ties and-the fif ties of your life-time you
would have been appailed. Fortunate
ly the bereavements, the temptations,
the persecutions, the hardships, were
curtained from your sight. With more
or less fortitude you passed through
the crisis of pain and sadness and disap
pointmnent and fatigue and still live to
recount the divine nelp that sustained
you. At twenty or thirty years of your
age at the tap of the drum you put on
the harness. Now, at sixty or Eeventy
or eighty, you are peacefully putting it
off. You would not want to try the
battle of live over sgain. So many of
just your temperament and with s
good a starting and as fine a parentege;
and seemingly with as much (qgipoise
of ci aracter as y ou had have made
complete shipwreck that you wouldI
not want again to run the risks.I
Thougn you can look back and see
many mistakes, the next time you
might make worse miskes. Instead
of being depressed over the fant that
you are being c rnntEd out or omtcd
in the great undertnhings of the church
and the worid, rejoice that you have a
right to hans up your heime: and
sheathe y our sword and Irae y our hr'ds
from the gantlets and your eet fiom
the boots or mail.
There ar:e old farmers who~ cannot do
one more day's work. What harvetsa
they raised in 1S70! They knew the
roation of cop as well as they knew
the rotation oI the Ssons. Under
teat lhaeritg suos they swung the
e r d the eradh! Thrcui what
deep !now they drew the logs or ent
their ws.y to -he foddering of the cattle! I
What drcughu., what frestets, whst in
seOtile invasions, they remember! To
e othe and feed and educate the house
hold they went through toils and self
esriSozs that the world kpew but iitt;e
abcat. Rest, aged man! L the boys
do the shove!ing and thrashing and
cutting ard swerting. You have rut
the hsrn si tff. azd do not try to puL ii
on &2 !.1D.
There are o'd mchanic; thac can .no
-e 'o the plane or pound with
the hamm r or bore with the bit or run
Up ,he ladder to the ?cr-foiding. Mas
t..r :rcLan:c3 they were cr subordin
aree who wrought faitbfullv in the work
of houe or barn or ship biilding, You
have a right to quit. You have finished
y-or taek. Be thankiul that your work
is d ote.
Then there are aged physicians. What
.ragedics of pain and aneident the3
have witnessed! How much suff riK
they f-ave assuatcd! How many fevere
thy ocoleo! How many broken bones
they sf! How many parzxyrms they
gaietcd! How many arxious days they
Lasted when thry knew that bumaq
iv-s derended upon their ekill aud
idjity ! They drove back d ath from
many S cradle.
And there are dae old ministers.
Once they were foremost in general as
Eemblies and couiferences and arsocia
tions. They have presched in Pente
cets. They have stood by Christian
deathbtd3 and seen ILijans go up in
filming chari-.ts of glory. The gospel
they preached for fity or sixty years
illumines their every feature. They
have stopped preaching, for their
breath is short, or their nerves are
a jargle, or they lose their thread of
discourse or suffer from confusion of
ideas. Cheer up, aged dominies and
doctors. The Bible says God forgets
our Eins when we repent of them, but
Le never forgets faithful services ren
eered. He remembers that revival
where yra stood watching the souls
that came "as clouds and as doves to
the windows." He hEs indicated by
your physical or mental condition that
it is ume for you to stop. . Be cotnt
to step. Your helmet bears the mark
of many a bauLesx; yeur sword is bent
from many a holy struggle; your shieldl
is dented wi.h the thrust cf many a
spear. Now hang up the armor witn
gladness.
Do not bCast of your moral strength.
One of the most brilliant men of the
nineteenth century, having temporarily
reformed from inebriacy, stood on the
platform of Broadway tabernacle, New
York, and said, "Were this great globe
ona crystaijite and I were off red the
posession of it if I would drink one
glass of brandy I would refuse with
eorn, and I want no relig:on to help
me." But that same man died at
Poughkeepsie a drunken pauper. Bet
ter underrate than overiate ourselves.
My aubj 3et is also a refutation of the
famous sentiment that Gtd is on the
side of the heaviest artillery. From all
I can read about thiE st-ruggle Benhadad
apoke the truth when he said, "l'he
gods do so unto me and more also if the
aust of Samaria shall suffice for hand
fuls for all the people that follow me."
He was so cr filent that with his su
perior numbers ha could defeat the
king of Israel and capture Samaria that
he left the work for a short afternoon.
He is at neon in Wassail with his
royal associates. The battle of Wa
terloo was not opened until twenty-five
minutes of 12 o'cloor at noon, but that
was becauso the ground was too wet to
mov, the artillery. B.ensadad waits
until afternoon because he is overcon
fident. Gcod is not on the side of the
most swvo: da or the moet war chariots
or the most cannon if they be in the
the wrong, but on the side of the right.
How such a preposterous sentiment
as I have mentioned should have gained
sway 1 know not when all history pro
laims the opposite. Describing the
very next battie in which Banhadad
fought and was miserably defeated, the
Bible says, "The children of Israel
pitched before them like two little flcks
of kids, but the Syrians filled the coun
try." How insignificant were the un
armed Israelites, half starved and un
crganizsd, compared with Pharaoh's
host on foot, on horschack and chariot
ed! But the waves of the Red Sea
took part in the conflist, part.ing to let
the pursued pass, but coming together
to destroy the posuers. The fdidian
ites and Amalekites were like grass
hoppers for muititudes, but 300 men
under Gideon came down, their only
weapons pitchers and lamps and trum
pets, and as they held up the lamps and
threw down the pitcaers and blew the
trumpcts the flash d the lights and the
bare of the instruments and the crash
of the crockery made their enemy fall
back in wild terror.
Notice also that my text takes it for
graned that you inns: put on the har
ness, else how can you take it ofi?
Life is a battle-a thirty years,' a forty
years' or a sixty years' war. Helmet
on must have, for the battleares of
skepticism and agnosticism are aimed
at your head. Every possible ffort will
be made to make you think wrong
The young man who gets his head
fiLed with wrong notions about God,
about Christ, a.bout the soul, about the
reat beyond, is already capturod. Put
on the helmet. the latchet well adjusted
under the e'in. Think right, and you
wil act right. Yes, breasi p'ate for the
heart. That is the most important part
to be difended. That decides what you
loe and what ypon hate, what you hope
fr and what you despis>. That ce
cids earthly happiness and eternal des
tiny.
Young man, see that you have on a
complete armor. All looks bri6gt now,
and it seems as if von couid march
right on without opposition or attack,
but be not deceived. There are hidden
fzs ready to halt you on your way.
The same cup that B :nhadad drank out
of just before his defeat will be cifered
to effect your defeat. His intoxicated
brain saw victory wh'en there was
nothing but rout andrain. What work
Benaad's cup made for Benhadad's
army! What shipwrecks on the sea,
what disarters on the land, caused by
iifming liq aids put npn the tongue
to set seething the brai.' How many
kings o'f thought and influence, with
crowns brighter than the one Benhada i
wre, hlave by strong drink been put
into flight as base as that in which
Bnhadad rode! "Give them to me,"
says the demon of inebriacy. 'Give
thm to me; hand the m down-the
brightest legislators of the land. I
will thicken their tongue; I will bloat
their cheek; I will stagger their step; I
will damn their soul. Hand them down
to me-the physician out of his labor a
tory, the attorney from the courtroom,
the minister ot the gospel frcm the al
t,,s of Goi. Hand them dovn to ms,
the gaeens of the drawing rootm, rand I
wi diegeace thcir names sua blnst
heir home and throw them down far
thr thaca Joabel feil to the dogs that
crunhed her carcass."
We :.dd our breath in horror as once
in snile we herar of some one, either
by accident cr suicide, going over Ni
ag 11a f alsbu the tides the depths,
the awful suirges of intemperans are
every hcur of tvery dsy rushbig scOres
o'imo:ah as iLn unatho'ud
Abyiw. "Su cii,, te ofudred of
t'esan ! by ie i
B>ware of 'hC cut. o. of whion B a
hand drant }xorso a: an-l na.tional
demoli -it n!
Y.., you mu-t hav fill arocr. There
are itcp ati.ts to : impare life ali
the tini muitplyirg and intensifyig
Read in private and disumd afeir
waid by the refined and eitgazt in
parlors are bo:k, p-,isont d from lid to
lid wiLh impuriie. Lcs chrraoters
in the novel s.puied by rhe.orical
pens and pr-p -e:ies of life csriatured
as prudery aud irfidelity of behav.oz
put in a way ts cx iite senep'thy and
half Approval. 24; wonder l:3 not that so
many go astra, but my wonie r is Lhat
tcn times 39 many are riot debauched.
There are it fluencos at work w*hicb, if
unarrested, will turn cur citi"ies into
8edoml aud Goru&rrabs r.ady for the
ha1 atd fire and brimstooe of G i t in
dgnation.
Oh, yes, yc Uneed the har'ess on ua
til Go.d teiis you to take it (fd In od
or. tim) it was ioathern armolr or ohain
armor er ribbed armor, fashioned in
sanci-Lt fcundry, but no oae can n e
you the ou'fi: you need ex-.eit G:d,
who is 1a';tr of this w &rid and the
infernal wtrd, frci aha arceni the
mighciest hosalities. Lay hold of God.
Nthizg but the arm ot O.mrnipotenc is
strong enough for the teimpted.
I congratulata -Ji those who are now
in the thickests of life'e battlea that the
time it coming whcn the strulglo wi;i
end and you will put the harasi off,
helmet and greaves and breamtplaue
haing fulfilled their mission. Yua
cannet in one visit to London Tow er
see all. You mu;t go aguin and again
to that place, wiich is asociatcd with
the Ezory of Lidy Jane Grey and Anne
B.leyn and Walter Ra1eigh ard Sir
Thoma3 More. Y, a wul see the crowns
of kings and qxeens, the robe worn by
the Blaok Piluce, and siiver bapismat
fonts from whica royal infants were
ehristened, and the bIok on wi. h L -rd
Lovate was bbhaiedd. But no pir% of
London Troer will me: interett you
tran the armory, in which is killfully
and imppessively arranged a e A:eotion
of all styles of armor warn between
the thir:eEnth and cight-eth c:ntu
ries, suggaeting 500 years of cr-filt
cuiras and neck guar, and chin piece
ad lanae rcst and guntlet ani girdle
and mailed apron You Eee fist how
from head to heel tho!e old t2ine war
riors were defended against Eharp
weapons.
0 ye soldier3 of Jesus Christ, wheu
the war of life is over and tbe victors
rest in the soldiers' home on the hear
enly heights perhaps there may be in
the city of the san a tower of spiritual
armor such as ineased the warriors for
Christ in earthly combat! Some day
we may be in that armory and har
the her'es talk cf how they fought the
good fight of faith and ree them with
the Ecars of wouds forever healei
and look at the- weapons of offense
and defense with which they became
more than coqnerors. In that tower
of heaven as the weapons of the spir
itual confihet are examined St. Paul
may p ,inlt out to us the arm~or with
which he advssed the Ephesians to
quip themselves and sai : "That is the
shield of faith. That is the helmet of
salvation. That is the girdle of rruuh
Tnat is the Ercastpiate of righteous
ness. Those are the mailed shoes in
which they were shod with the prep
aration of the gosipel." There and
then yon may recount the contrast be
tween the cay whnen you oalisted in
Chisuian confict -anc the day when
you closed it in earshaly farewecll and
eavenly salutation, anu the text which
has so much meaning for us now, will
have more uesning ror us then-"'Let
not him that girdeth on his harness
boast himself as he that puteth it off."
A DARK PICTURE
Rcard of Hangings and Lynchings for
i~he Fo.st Year.
The Chicabgo Tribune prints "the
dark "reco~da of hangings and lynch
ings" for tho year thaat has ,iat ended.
The former, it says, "shows a gleam of
encouragement," 'but the "jatter, in
some respects, is distinctly discourag
ing."
There were 118 legal Exeuions dur
ing the year, apiuet 119 in 1900 Of
those excened 71 were negroes, !nd 47
whites As compared with 1900 she
number of negroes increased 13 an~d
the number cf whites decreased 13,
the figures for 1900 being negroes 58,
whites 60 '!he South had 82 of t'e
executions and the North 36; in 1900
the figures were 80 for the South and
30 for the Natn.
Tne crimes which led to these execu
tins we re: Murder, 107; eriminal as
saa t, 9; attempted criminal assaal;, 1;
train robflery, 1. There were 5 execu
tions for criminal assault in 1900, at~d
the increase in 1901 snggests to the
lribune that this crime in the Soith "is
coming to "be more and more punish
ed by the law," though the increase of
lnhing for the year makes it difli~ult
to determine that fact.
The lynchings in 1901 numbered 135,
as compared with 115 the year before,
an increas of 20, and 17 more rdan tbe
lea! exections. Of the 135, about
nime-tentnzi, or 121, cceurred in the
South and 14 in the N ;rt, as comp tr
e d with 107 in the South and 8 in the
N,r-h in 1900. The ineresse in the
North is oredited to Californis, Idaho,
lontana, Kansas and 1ndana.
The numneer of nergrocs lyn~hed in
1901 was 117, 'he same numborss in
1900, and 36 more than the
numier exeented in 1931 0 .e Thdian
and one C.aunaman were al-.c lynched.
The principal crimes which lecd to the
!nbin:g were almost the same for the
to years, being 39 for murder in each
year; 19 for crimmnal as.sult- in ^1901
and 18 in 1900. -:\-a
The six So::hern States whid hal
the largest num'act d~ mlr
1901,- wi the niuber for 'e'a,, were:
Missisip7. 16; L~uide na, 15; Alr.
bass, 15; scorsta, 14; Tennessee 12;
Tx,1. As compared with 1900,
Miss s i wed a decrease of 4,
L isis.sa of 5, and Gacr ia of 2; ar*d
Alaama sn inorme of 7, Te nnesse I
of 5, and Texa~s of 7.I
South CLarolmna's record is not men
tioned in tne generdi review, but it had
only one lynonng in 1901.
TIhe comlparauive recor2. of iyncings
andA hangmg is, of course, uemost
notable featuro of LCe eticit. It showsj
that moro "crimes o-f violence" are
commtted by professedly law cbiding
men, in the rame of Mstice, than era
punshed by the Coursr in the nme of
law. The canaition does no eredit to
cur c~iti ei.-N-o ami Courier.
Starved to Death.
Mrs. Mary Gaidin ens fourda starved
to death at her h~m: on Mrle avenu,
loisn, 1Th usdioy rsong. A four
month's o:d baby wl bard1y slive on
her breast. In the corer of thc room
were four other c-j:men almost dead I
with starvauoi, Inhc husband and
father was out of work several months.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL5.
The Pi-ifal Salariea That is Paid to
the Teachers.
State Sucerirtedert <f Eiucation
MMclhan is hard at work now upon
his annual report His work hvs been
much dela7ed by the frilara of county
saptrintendents to get in their rcp-rts
o - gej them in arranged in proper form.
Mr. IMaMh;n Friday rermitted the
use of the gener-i Lroductory sum
mary which is fanl of interest:
STATISTICS
The ttaiistical facts for the State,
the ccunt:es avd the districis are set
forth in dstail in the tcblies in part II
of this report. Many of these data are
only approximately accirste, but it is
probable that the results presented thii
year are more ac lurate than any eva3i
g-vun before for this Stato. No pains
h.ve been spared in endeavoring to
hsA: errors corrected and omission3
supplied, the-uih unyielding in sister c.
upon completentsi has delayed the
printing of the report.
Svo p ints should be made and soms
lesions orawa bere by refirence to cer
tain leaiaog facts for this and other
3 ears. I had wished to make the com
pati3ans for ail the preceding years of
our public school system, but must
abandon this task for the preEeDt at
least, since I find in the clder riprts
so many omiF3in3 and contradidons
that, unlesr great time could be given
to studying the details and calculaing
the relative facts, comparisons would
b3 misieading. I muat, therefore, con
fine the statements to tho facts of the
last three years:
AVERAGE ANNUAL SALARY PAID TEACH
ERS
1899 1900 1901.
White.. .. .$155 78 $178 36 $18891
Negro . .... 76 03 8068 80 30
These facts althouga they indickte
some improvement from year to year,
should cause us shame. A more de
tailed studay woall indic-.te the im
possibility of a teaohing .professioi in
some counties. Oaly a few illustra
tions will be here citCd:
In Chesteifinld the average sysru of
the white teohrrs was $110 51; in
Horryz $105.20;io Williamsburg $102 55.
Yet these salari s are an improvement
over previous years
TaHig the counties that aecordirg
to the report of 1898 paid their white
teachers less than an average of $100 a
year, we may observe the development
as follows:
AVERAGE SALARY OF TEACBERS
FOR YEAR
1899 1900 1901
Chesterfild
White ......$95 69 $ 55 12 $110 64
Neg:o... 5U 80 3564 47.24
Harapton.
White... 93 63 12108 141.56
Negro ...... 43 29 4021 6808
Berry.
White...... 8047 99 91 10520
Neiro ... 68 58 67.55 7157
L xirg'on.
White.. 8806 115.26 17325
Negro ... . 29 57 29.26 51 61
O.'once.
White...9584 .... 15340
Negro...41 90 . .. 71 62
P-'kens
White.. ..82 96 155 56 150 16
Negro...48 03 65 10 74 23
Weiiisburg.
White..... 86 02 94 20 102 55
Negro .. .58 89 67.87 57 76
Bad as thoe figures are, they show
some improvement. No county in the
8t~to n-m pays less than $100 a year on
an average to white teachers. Bat we
must remember that these are merely
verag*'s, and that as some teachrrs in
each county receive more, some les
than the average.
Now let us obuerve the best. In 10
ocunties the average salary paid to
white tesehers last year was $200 or
more. The recerd of these for three
years, is therefore, here twerented:
1899 1900 1901
Anderson.
White..$161.28 $15938 $28913
Negro.. 73 92 108 00 113 67
ChWarleston.
White . .497 97 505 89 504 78
Nro ,..201 87 ]80 17 196 22
Riceiland.
White ...28143 300 84 329 56
Negro..158 80 163.00 164 20
Mr. McMahan here also quotes the
fgures for the counties of Fairfield,
freowood, Laurens, Newberry, Or
angburg, Sumter and Beaufort.
Charleston bears the palm and R'.ch
land comes second.
En:dendy to have an effective sys
tem of schools througbout the State,
we need to spend at leat twies what we
now speqd on teachers. Then the av
eage salary for the teachers would be
a little more for white teachcers and a
little less for negroes than in Rieliland
at present. The figures would then be
p377 82 and $160.60, and would be still
ar below the average in Charleston
county. From such reflections we
should have a larger and more solemn
conception of what we need to do in
the way cf raising money for education.
NUMBER OF PUPILS TO TEACHERS.
The work req'ured of the precent
crce of teachers is somer~hnt indicated
by the statement of average pupils to
teachers. I shall summarize here these
fgures for the five ecunties that now
pay least snd the five counties that novw
pay most to white teachers:I
1899 1900 1901
(Jheste:Sieid.
Wite............ 41 39 43
Nygro............. 58 55 53
Bampt'n.
White...........35 29 31
Na.............41 42 50
Horry.
White............40 38 38
No.............45 38 35
Negro Pickens
White.......... 35 58 53
.ro.... ....... 34 47 43
Anderson.
White......... 3 51 -
Negro.... .......51 76 -
.B -af ert.
Wie........... 36 27 -
Negro ....... ..... 75 60 -
C harlst on.
White. ..... ......71 53 -
Negro.......... . - 103 -
White......... 27 27 -
egro ........... 72 67 -
Richland.
Wie...........32 33 -
g......... 88 88 -
LENGTII OF SESSIONS.
The length of session is hardly so sig
S:fmat as the ealarry of temoher and
he number of upils taught by a teach
~r-the most vital facts in the efficacy
fa school. -
This has probably never been calen
td wth abseinte acsy for the en
ire Szte, rd whren we know ia we
iav raetically no information as to
he use that the children have made of
he open ac.acoi. Fa have attended
he entire time in one year. Still fewer
ave attended from year to year long
maough to be greatly benefitted.
Namber of weeks:
1899. 1900. 1901.
Schools for whites...19 24 20 54 21 17
Schools for ncgrces..14 52 15 22 14 12
ENROLLMENT AND AVERAGE ATTEND
ANCE.
The enrollment represents attendanen
of ten days or more. It therefore gives
little evidence of the number of chil
dren obtaining the bencflt of the schools
for the ses:ion. The average attcni
anoe on the other hand, if correctly re
corded, calculated and reported, would
be of great signifiance. Bath ar) here
g'ven for the State for the last three
years:
1899. Average
Enrol- attord
ment. ance.
White.. ........123,398 86 725
Negro ........ .....146,477 107,693
1900.
White............126289 90.438
Negro .............155,602 110,947
1901.
White...... ....127230 94,548
Netro ..............157,976 113 566
We have no means of knowing very
de~nily what proportion of children
are attending school. The legal school
age io from 6 to 21, but few of those
near eitner limiG of the age will attend.
The United States census report for
1900 gives the children of "school age"
"'frem 5 to 20 inclusive."
Mr. McMahan then quotes the com
parative figures from the census re
ports.
Ailowing for student in colleges and
private schools and for all boys and
girls over 16 years of age, we still
should be alarmed at the number of
children who do not attend school.
Daubtlesi nearly all attend a short
time during their lives, some one year
and some another. But this state of
aff irs is not to be tolerated.
COMPULSORY EDUCTION.
The time h-s come for us to con
sider the neces ity of enacting a com
pulsory ednoation law. The State can
not afford to permit children to grow
up in ignorance. If parents are not
alive to their duty. the intellige:oe and
corsience of the State should be equal
to the protection of these unfortunate
children and of the social whole. A
moderate law would yet be a great ad
vance. It should require that every
child between the agis of 8 and 12 at
tend school at least 12 weeks in the
year. This law would insure only 36
weeks of sobooling to each child, equal
to one session of nine months. In this
connection I call attention to the res
olution of the State Teachers' associa
tion and the very able aldresa of Dr.
B. F. Wilson on this sutiet, both of
which are published in this volume.
THE STATE'S WEALTH.
Valuation of All Property in South
Carolina.
The final figures showing the valua
tion of all property in the State fox
taxation are interesting: The figureE
are as follows for last year:
Rbeal estate........103.258,440
Personal........ ...... 59030,424
R ailroad.... .......... 27,044,243
Total .... . ...... ....*19,333,107
The figures for 1900 were as follows:
R sal estate .. .... .. ..$102 148,427
P'ersonal............... 52.006.830
Railroad .............. 25.359,272
Total .............*179,514.530
This shows s handsome ir'crease fori
this year, it being $9,818 577.
BY COUNTIEs
The total taxable property by coun
tie; is as follows:
Abbeville............$ 4.619,089
Aiken .... .......:.. 7,582 222
Anderson.... .......... 8,425,663
Bamberg........ ....... 2351,500
Beaufort............... 3.351,090
Barnwell............... 4,873.700
Berkeley ......... ..... 2 613 790
Charleston............. 21.218,125
Cherokee............... 3,511.218
Chester................ 4,140,664
Obesterfield .... .... ....1.946,270
Clarendon.... .......... 2,770,170
Colleton.............. 3,099,500
Dr~rlington ....... ...... 4,132 27h
Dorchester.... ......... 2229 80J8
E-lgefield..............3 35.5.393
Faireld ..... ....... .. 3,737 323
Florence ........ ...... 3,831,072
Georgetoivn............ 2, 8'3. 37
Greenville ........ 7,979. i4S
Greenwood............4 4388,740
Hampton............... 2,859 585
Eorry.................1 1684.794
Keranaw......... .....3 3382,43U
Lancaster ... .......... 2,169,048
Lanrens..... ..... .... 5,090 548
Lexington .. ........... 3,785 109
Marion.. ... .... .... .. 4 367,605
Marlboro...... ........ 3,2(9.255
Newberry...... .... .... 4957.937
Ooonee.... ............ 2.956 945
0-angeburg....... .... 7,067,015
Pickens .......... ...... 2 120 047
Richland......... .... . 9 779,530
Saluda ................ 2,065,932
Spartanburg............ 11,803,371
Sumter ... ............ 6 269,729
Uoion .......... .... .... 3 963 925
Willisburg.... ....... 2 921,131
York..................56,015,111
Total....... .......$189,333,107
Teaching Respect for old Dogs
12 a certain skirmish an officer got a
shight scratch on the leg. The wound
as a matter of grctt glory to him, and
he nur3C! it through af ter days, gow
ing lamer withi every fear that the
memory o'f his bre~very might pass out
of miad. One da;, late in life, as he
at nuroing his leg and pondering the
g.orious past, a young man viaiting the
famiily for the first time approached,
sud sympathetically remarked:
"Lame, Colonel?"
"Yes, sir." after a pause, and with
inexprer~sible solemnity; "I sm lame."
"B en riding sir?"
".No"-with rebuking sternness-" I
have not been ridong."
"A slip down on the pavement?"
"No, sir," with actual 9erecity.
"Perhaps, then, you have sprained
your ankle sir?'
With a painful slowness, the old man
lifted his pot leg in both hand,, set it
csrefully down upon the floor, rose
slowlr from his chair, arnd, looking
down upon the unfortunate youth withi
mirngic pi,y and wrath, bursi forth in
the sublimity of rage:
"Go and rad th history of your
country, you confounded young puppy !"
A Foolish Girl.
Rather than give up her faith in
Christian Solence Mies Mary Koch
dd in Cincinnati. She went to take
a course in divine reading and was
strickan with typhoid fever. A physi
cien was calied in, but the gir!, wt~
was 19 years old, was so strong ir, her
belief that she refused to take the
medicine the dco';or prescribed. Her
body was today brought to her pareuts'
home and the funeral will take place
A COLLOSAL LIAR.
An int&iVtw Pubilihed In a
Richmond Paptr.
DRUNK, CRAZY OR WORSE
Oeargq Walters Says Thngst
About the Exposition Fn
Which There Is N t An
lo!a cf Truth.
There are a number 3f people in
Charleston who are koking for a certain
Mr. George Walters, "a travelling
man." Should this Walters find it
convenient to came 1G Charicston agrin,
precuming that he has been here,ce
wrhich some people may hare d;ubts,
he would, no doubt, find the mer:1- ts
tumbling over each other to hive him
orders. .And perphaps alko as, in his
own words, he sa;s that "the Excosi
tion Compnny nec:is a smart lia-,"
ho might get a j .b with that concern.
This, however, is also in doubt, for the
fabrications p-blished in a Richmond
newEpaper, which are crdited to
George Walters, are so c-.am3y ann
ridiculous on their f'ac that u id likAy
that Mr. Walters is not even as clever
an inventor as he thinks he is. Prob
ably he has only practiczd by himself
in the dirk for a short Lime and exp jri
ence might be productive of greas re
sulits. Answe-y, Charlcston would be
glad to have him come this way, as
soon as business demands it, and the
newspapera here will raae pleasure in
recoaimending him to the merchaats as
a diummer vith more lungs than tr ,ins
aod who is either engagea in a mauci
ous piece of work or else is a fool.
There can be to middle grjund in the
ma-ter. The etory whwas has beon
p inted in one of the Richmond news
papers and accre4tted to Mr. Waltera is
silly, untrue, and i appears rler
strange to the average pirdoU in Char
leaton that Bact a reamastabie yarn
should have been given space in a re
putable paper. The facts in the case
are well known to every p:cgressive
newspaper in the country au-, tcey are
very diffarent from the dotnile cf the
Waiters tate. The story is !s follows:
"I havn seen sume morgoss .a m;
time," said Mr. Gecrgi Wters, a
travelling man, who was in Re -mond
yesterday, 'but I have Lever seen one
which would approach Charlcton jast
now. The Exposition there has pos
sibly been the most Qa~xtling faiuro of
any Exposition the world ever saw.
There is nobody there. There is nork
ir g at all doing and jast why no )ne
reams to be able to toi. Possibly it is
because the public has been surfeited
with expositione, possibly from a d z n
other causes, but at any rare the facts
remain.
"T1o begin with, the Midwsy has
closed and gone. For this Midway
privilege the .5ostock people, I under
stand, paid something like thirty five
thousad doliars an'i I doubt if they
took in theirty-five dollars after the
first day or so. They finally closed up
to save money. In addition to this
exhibitors are going and many of the
most striking ot the exbibits have been
taken out and shippen away. There is
nobody there to look at tiiem save the
exiiitcra themsalves and it is rather
trying on their eyes.
"The racing which began a few days
ago, and whioh was thougat to be thle
strongest feature of thedxois~o.a is a
fizzle. A large sum was paid for this
privilege and l'd like to gamble that
the daily attendance will not average
two hundred people and a great msjori
ty of these there, on passes. 'The Ex
position management doesn't -eeem t.o
be able to give away tickets to the Fair
and all interest has been lost by the
Charlestonians themselves. The Ex
position grounds look like a lumrner
yard. Only three of the tbutidings have
been finished and lumber is pilea every*
where. I don't believe the Exposition
will last until Fe bruary 1.
"Personally .1 think this ghastly fail
ure was entirely due to lack of press
work. It takes a pretty smart liar at
the head of an Eiposition and I e~m
atraid Charleston couldn't rise to the
occasion."
T'o very briefly contradict the state
ments made in the article rc p .oduced
here it may be said that not one single
exhibit lias been taken awry irom Char
leston andi that more are arrivng htre
ever? day. Tine fact that there are a
number of exhinits not yet placed is
due to the miscalculation of exaisitors
and they are working as hard as they
can to get everything in shape. As
every boay know3 the Midway is not
closed. Neither did Mr. Bosteck buy
the Midway privilege for $35.000 or
any othor &msunt. The sliiiway con
cessions were bought by a dozsn or
more people and every loot of space is
occupied with first-class ahowvs. Tne
Midway has never closed for a d.ay
since the very first show was made
reay for business. The Exposmain
'Jom pany is not so dull for use who
nave time to go up to the grounds. Thec
attendance wednesasy was about eight
tinousand, and haslt of the number
prooaoly atteonded the rsces. ome
little exten~or work is beicg done on
some of the buiniogs, bu; thaere are
seventeen completea, istecad oZ th:ee.
as 3.1r. WanLar3 states. The :Sats
ouilngs 0f 1lonols and Penne3ylvania
are not comitter.d, but this no anic
or the Exposliio Comp.-ny and the
visitor wno walitseout on tumber piiss
msust go and iohk for them. It is hard
ly worth while to contradict the general
run ot misetatements mane in Mr. W al
ters's inteivie~v, bus the foregoing will
show that the gentieman was either
drunk or cres; w?eun hre and probaoly
never wena near the grounds.-News
and Courier.
Wicked Chorus~ Girls.
Mine 8th anznuc Neo York theatre
was entirelr detroyed1 f; re est; Fri
day morning. 'The "aierry Maidens"
Durleegue company had given a long
performance and the audienco ied ornly
been aismissed afteen minutes when
the fire started at 1 o'clock. Many of
the chours girls were onily half clothed
when they reached the street. Neigh
boring building were damaged and th~e
theatre was cnrirely consu'ned. The
fire 'was under control at d o'clock. The
origin is due to the chcrus girls ei;a
rettes.
Will Let Us Alone.
A Washington dispatch seys the pro
motors of the proposition to reducec the
reprenuation cf th 8utharn Sa
in Congress are net very much eo
couraged to continue the effsts starten
so 'oravely -A the asm;o the to
sion. The prospects of n favorale se
ion are not regarded as so promising as
ANDmuN'S WZMRIST BLOW.
The Powar CemntIs Dam at POT Imn
Ew p' Away.
T" Drorlo o! Ard-rson srt n'.3
tbroirg'1 one of the 2rcstes- calamiius
which has ever coc~rten'e th.'m. San
day night week, at Clev.n o'Cock. the
electric current which hh the ct-re
city ceased euddenly to fln aLtd as
euddenly dark2ess "reigaed supreme."
Informaticn eoon renehed be city that
the dam oi de Aderto-a WhUr, Light
and Po;wer Co. a Perimaa Shoals had
washea away. Thiq icrmcioa Kai
cradted by very few at irst, but.
when a little later it was effizially cou
firmed, it was a terrible shock to the
enira citiunship.
The terrible calamity, finng a
disaster of this nature, can be under
stood when it is stated ih2t, in add.tion
to lightag tho city, this campsay iur
aish.d p.?wer to cetton miiie hcre ex
ployf-g a.ont eight.en hundred hands,
and distributed 250 horso powtr axong
various other irdustries of the city.
Hundreds of people are out of work,
the street eit nit are in total dark.
r.ess, and the privite resideo a a-e but
dimly lighted by lamps and candies.
P.rtman Snoals, wnere this dam is
loc.Led, is situated nine mile: eest of
this city, on Seneca River. The e!ec
tric plant erected thtr. wninhicc ze
machinery, dim, builoige, & '. reore
sent an ou-.hy of about $400,000
Thiriy-tltree hundred horse-paver -,as
furnished the city. The cam is 840
feet long, 44 feet at hightest point aud
31 feet and tic inchcs at base. The
rule for the construition of dami being
that the base should be two-tnirds of
the heighth, it will be observed =-na, a
margin of safety of ten per cent ha
been provided for in the consractio~n
of this dam.
The voiume of water was so great
that two hundrd feet oi the center of
tmis dam d so-id masocry has been
washed away. It was first thoughL that
te dim was gone entire!y to the bot
torm, but it is now believed that ten feet
of tic onre remains; if this be true, the
cost of repairs will not be so grea .
V:o;oing matttrs in their g!oo.ie; es
ptc:. -t is thought thsat the reri n
the dam will not exceed $35 000
Almost in a instant witer tha dam
.;i swept awsy the power house Was
fibcded with thirteen feet of water.
rhis house contains all the machinery,
aSd zhether tnis machinery Ia% been
rdined is problematical. I is thugUt it
cin be dried out and replaced at anoi
r.al cost; if not, and it is rudied, it en
tails an additional less of $56 000,
which represents the o3. N> very
intelligent estimate of the loss asn now
be made, but in any cvent, the dama
eel, entire, will be repsizrd at once.
Anaerson Intelligencer.
A .TOXS ON BILL IRP.
Says That He is Not the Father of the
Montie-llo Paper Man.
-They scem to have a la-ge j: oy j ake
on Maj. Charles H. 8.nitn, thes CarLers
ville, Ga , philosep ter to well known
as Bill Arp. He writes to me (orsti
tution about it as followas:
Ba'C r. Editor I am still per ple xed.
My Christ mas pleaure has bien mar
red somewhat by my pity for the poor
er:dulous dependent women all cver
the leznd who are dapes of tiat .'dti
ello man. Every day brir g more let
ters from ticsn who have boug sincn
sent the $25 to my sen at Mos.ieello,
Fia.. and ges nothing back. They say
they trusted him because he was my
eon. Many of them begge d cr borrowed
the $25, for they could not get the eub
rc:ihet s and Eo they made up a list of
rnames from their acq zaictaress and
then they went to work on the endless
chain humbug and got other women in
to n~nd more money and be duped.
Now, Mr. .E-itoz, I beg you to rut it
in laige type and print it in red iak
that Joel Smith, of Monticello, is no
son of mine, nor do I know anything of
him or his ptp~sr. I sae a late issue
in which he baasts of having 40,000
subscribers which I suppose mens $10,.
000 that these dependent woman .have
sant him. He promised them $20 a
month to write three hours a dey and
ecme of them sold their je relry and
other p:eeus things to raise the $25
Mr. E titer, do please lend your c >i
umns to stop this fraud upon our poor
southern women. And now we see
that acother endless chain paper has
started in Ather s, Ga. Ths frauds
are bringing discredit upon poor we
men. I eocloee a sample eincu'ar.
Pleae stop it. Kdll it. Crach it. L
is worse than the cherry tree swir'dle.
Bdl Arp.
P 8.-I will give $10 to find cns who
startcd that'lie that the Monticello man
was my son. I lave received at ler-st
fifty letters Eayir g, "Your Eon a'
Monticello," etc. 'Jney make me tire d.
I had three from Texas this morning.
B. A.
Value of Corn $talks
Corn my be grown for stalks only,
scmne day, and not -for the ears.
Wculdn't it be funny to be cixperizent
ing for an earless coin? Tha is what
it is likely to comne to if the uses of the
corn s~ajks ket p on developir~g. Just
now inis neek and neor &.tween the
etsiks and the car a3 to which is the
mnore valuable, so the wise farmer is
making g-acd mcney eling his c-r i
es in.ntead of burrning them The
uses for corai stalke are very many. '.ane
agricaltural departmsnt h-.s made pub
ito a nuLlenia show.rg ta they may
be used for these amoing other purgest s:
A packing for warahipe, a hzgn grade
of writing papern; the baises of a emnote
e spoider; and a cattle icost in~de by
grinaing it to powder and moxng with
eeap nmoJ asses. The new food i. press
es u.tO' Akes under a hydrolit tre a enu
be shipped a3 easily as bricks or co:k
wxcd. for ieeding it is broken -up and
mixcd wish water. Ac'.ual tests Lwvrng
been made a:-d inpies have been sent
o aricultural stnnuorns in E irope. .R3
ports fr.m all bources are vey auc;uuag
;g. fhe icod wdi be pie'.ny
van~l o our csyslry inc the trot cc,
and the food cakes can be made at
inimum coat in Cuba and tho Souh
e a States, where thousands of tons of
low grape molas3cs go to waite an
nually.
Cherry Tree M.en Arrested.
News comee from North Carolini
that M. C. P.:-dgen, of Forest City,
Geoge Fais, G.randison .Ramsey. AK
rin Biggerstaff and Drury Hiltl, of
.iienboro, have been arrested by a
Uitd 8tates marshai in -connection
with the Amos Owen Cherry Tree corm
pray sad bound ove-r to the Chario.te
2 etai. court. Then first name d in $,0
st: m thers $500 bond, Theo oara
is fiaduient use of the mil. R J.
t-trno2, is a mus:ian W-i non4
here, nas secaredt a picium' of Am.:S
Oers and has anoan i to ma~ny pro
ie in York Couty
SPICER ARCHITXCTS I
Plas et the 3ost Dainty House
in the World.
There are few members of the animal
kingdom whose work is more marvel
ous than that of the geometric spider
and those related to him. Dr. Henry
Lney ,of Cumberiand, Md., who does
I considerable experimenting along sc
enrile lines for a pastime has lately
been studying the thelyphonides, a
.species of spider. that builds its web
over the water along streams and riv
ers, with Interesting results.
After securing the web, which, In Its
natural state, is comparatively invisi
ble for photographic purposes, Dr. La
ney*prcceeded first tu make it tena
clOUs by spraying it with an alcoholie
solution of -shellac from a medical ato
mizer. Though still comparatively in
visible after this treatment the web
could be handled with ease, without
fear of tearing it. To develop the
beautiful work of the spider Dr. Laney
with another atomizer sprayed the
web with a solution of gallic acid,
which made it appear as if frost had
settled upon it. The web now seemed
to be covered with the morning's dew.
To complete the effect Dr. Laney cap
tured the spider, put him In the de-th
box and then conted him with shellac.
Deftly placing the insect in the web
in a natural position, he was sprayed
with gallic acid. Using black velvet
as a background. Dr. Laney succeeded
in photographing one of the mgst
beautiful and- delicate pictdres found
In nature.
Dr. Laney says: "The spider displays
wonderful intelligence and mechanical
skill in making these nets. Its instinct
is far above that of the ordinary ani
mal: Indeed. It quite borders on reason.
When a large spider desires to make
a web for himself and he has some
distance to stretch it, he -does not
swing himself, as most people suppose,
and let the wind or his own momen
tum take him where it will. He begins
his web by starting the first guy very
close up to the corner of the angle. He
attaches to the other side of the angle
making a short guy. Each guy In
creases in length, the spider always us
ing the !ast guy made to carry the next.
o:e over until he attains the position
in which he wishes to place his net.
The last guy may be ten feet long and
the first one only a foiot in length.
"When the guys are al fixed to his
satisfaction he proceeds to put in the
network by -starting from the center,
where he attaches his web, then Ivith
circular motion traveling from guy to
guy, spinning web as he goes and by
ts natural moisture sticks it to each
guy, carefully carrying the web In his
hind feet, to prevent it from touching
except at the point desired by him.
When be has a small distance of the
inside completed he goes to the outside
of the net and finishes out any irregid
lar part of the net that does not come
within the radius oL a circle. After the
circle has been attained the same ro
tary motion is kept up until the net Is.
finisht'd to the center.
"Here comes the most comic feature
of net building-the test of the durabil
ity of the work by the spider himself.
As soon as the net is finished, he puts
every guy through the severest test,
by sharp, brisk jerks. seemingly suffl
cient to tear the whole net to pieces.
If he finds the net is not taut, he will
go to the end of the guy rope, stretch
it until the net suits him and reattach
the guy. If the net still seems loose
from the center, the guy will be es>
ried from the center to some conveid
ent point, to give the net Its proper
shape.
"The nets are perched so as to catch
mosquitos and small insects. The
struggs of the prey generally serious
ly da- te the nets. The spider him
self ln morning demolishes the rest
of the web for the day, with the ex
ception of the main guy ropes,..retires
to a secluded quarter and again ' ap
pears late in the afternoon, about 4:30
Ior '5 o'clock, and renews his net It re
quires him about an hour and a half
to const-uct the ordinary web. This
work is done every day, rain or shine,
and both male and female spiders afe
?:tally industrious. The baby spiders
are taught industry, beginning net
building right after their birth. While
building his net the spider takes no.
notice of the accumulation of Insect,
life in Its meshes, and when his work:
of building is finished he pounces up-'
on them ravenously, consuming them
In toto. You cannot kick or blow
these spiders out of 'heir nets, nor can
they be taken unawares. When- they
fall their own net is attached to them,
and they can almost touch the water:
and then quickly run back on the silk
en string which they spun while fall-.
ing. The web is always attached to
them. When the main guy of the net,
becomes too full of Insect debris. for
convenience and comfort, the spider.
goes out, consuming all before him,
and at the same time spinning a fine.
web behind, entirely renewing the
guy"-St. Louis "Republic." ,
An Interesting Dog.
IA very Interesting dog, which once
belonged to the late General Gordon, of
the English army, better known as
"Chinese Gordon," is being kept at the
Gordon Boys' Orphanage, at Dover,
England. It Is the property of Major
Sell, of the King's regiment, who says
regarding It: "The dog's name is
Wang. When General Gordon was re
called from China to go to Khartoum,
about fourteen years ago, he brought
three of the rare black Chow puppies'
back with him, and when he arrived at
Gibraltar he gave Wang to Sir John
Adie's daughter. Sir John was an old
friend of General Gordon, and was
then commanding at Gibraltar. Wang
remained in the possession of this lady
until her husband, who is In the royal
artillery, got a stafi appointment In
London, when he gave the old dog to
me. The other two puppies a.re be
livdto be dead, so that Wang Is the
only remaining .one that General Gor
den owned.
Very nearly as Interesting as Wang
Is the ki!ted boy who acts as his keep
er, Pobert Robinson. Three years ago
Robert's fa-;her turned the starving
lad out of doors at Crewe, .England.
The little fellow tramped frcm plac'e
to place, living os he could. Returning
to Crewe he found that his mother was
dead and the home that he had been
driven from broken up. Tramping
again, be -eventually got ,to London,
and there a constable found him, a
mere bundle of rags and bones,
asleep at the foot of the Gordon statue
In Trafalgar square. He was event
ually taken to the Gordon Boys' home,
and as Wang's keeper Is one of that.
ilstitutlonl's most honored Inmates.
Thinking of "Faust.
IMephisto (to latest arrival in
Hades)-Well, what do you think of
me?
The Arrival (a patron of the opera)'
-To tel the truth, you don't come up
to my expectations. You ought to see
Edouard de Reske In the partI-Pzck. -
A Modest Request.
eit-My money Is my best
friend.
Jewett-Well, the h est of friends
must part; lend me five, will you?
Harper's Bazar.
Side Lights on History.
"Crossed in lovei" exclaimed _Lean
der, as ha looked back at the Helles
pont, shook the water from his hair,
and made a bce line for Hero.-CM
cago Tribune. r
Ho Thought Not.
''Our defeats," said the Britofi
"vere iargely duo to red tape."
"Red tape?" said the Boer prisoner,
Innocently. "I don't think we've been